Irene Z  
Instruments: Piano
Styles: Classical, Jazz, Pop, Folk, Country, Showtunes, New Age

B.A. University of IL at Chicago, Music and Psychology.                                  Masters classes, Private Piano, American Conservatory of Music, 7 years - Jazz Piano, Theory, Classical & Improvisation, under virtuoso pianist Frank Caruso.  Masters classes, Private Jazz Piano and improvisation, Fine Arts Building, 3 years, under Peter Scheiner. Private Voice, DePaul University, 3 years, under Barbara Staley.                       Certificate in Creative Arts for Young Children, Emphasis on Music & Art, Harper College.                                                                                                                  Jazz Ensemble, Old Town School of Folk Music, 2 years. Learned keyboard technique & improvisation playing in 15 piece jazz ensemble under David Jennings.       

Over 25 years of piano and piano/vocal performance experience in Chicago and overseas including 2 year bookings at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place Hotel,  the Hyatt Regency O'Hare, the Hamilton Stouffer Hotel, Itasca, IL; 1 year bookings at the Ambassador West Hotel, the Westin O'Hare, the Renaissance Chicago Hotel; 6 to 9 month bookings at the Palmer House Hotel, the Drake Hotel, the Chicago Hilton Hotel, the Hotel Intercontinental, the Knickerbocker Hotel, the Park Hyatt Hotel, the Sofitel Hotel, O'Hare Hilton, the Waldorf Astoria, the Omni Chicago Hotel.                            

Overseas Engagements include: The Manza Beach Resort Hotel, Okinawa, Japan (4 months), The Nagano Metropolitan Hotel, Nagano, Japan, (4 months), Hotel Reisen, Stockholm, Sweden (6 months), Princess Cruise Lines in the Mediterranean (6 months) and others.